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Geeked About Working With Revis

January 6th, 2014

When the Bucs announced that Lovie Smith was their guy, the 10th coach in Bucs history, a number of NFL pundits and Bucs fans concluded — with bad math — that since Lovie runs a Tampa-2 defense, stud cornerback Darrelle Revis is SOL because he is not a zone-coverage guy but a press-man guy.

Lovie, who is pretty low key if not even-keeled, got noticably excited once in his introductory press conference tody at One Buc Palace. That was when the subject of Revis came up.

“As people know by watching us in Chicago, we didn’t always run a Tampa-2 defense,” Lovie beamed. Lovie went on to say he can’t wait to work with Revis and to craft his defense utilizing Revis’ strong skills.

Now Joe loved hearing that. Good coaches mold defenses around the talents of their players, not forcefeed a scheme.

Also psyched to hear this for same reasons. However, even tho I can understand the reasoning behind letting Dom go ( timing ) I wish he could have been retained. Dom gave his heart and soul to this team and in my humble opinion did a way above average on drafting and singing FAs. Met him a number of times and always found him open and ready for all things Bux as well as willing to share a laugh or two. Wish him the best. Oh. And his contracts were genius.

Lets not forget Dom tied himself to Freeman as his franchise quarterback. That was his biggest draft pick and we know what happened. If that had worked out we might still have Schiano as coach as well.